Descrizione

In 4° (mm 250x180); pagg. XII, 490, (2 con l'errata al recto), con 13 (5 rip.) tavole fuori testo; cartonato coevo adattato con titolo su tassello al dorso. Alcune note bibliografiche manoscritte all'interno del piatto, un restauro all'angolo dell'occhiello, fori di tarlo ai margini del frontespizio con qualche lieve alone, per il resto, a parte lievi tracce di sporco superficiale all'angolo inf., ottimo esemplare con barbe parzialmente. Waller 9792; Blake 468; Heirs of Hippocrates, 706: "Vallisnieri was a pupil of Malpighi. at Bologna and eventually became professor of practical medecine at Padua. Apart from his medical work, he was most active in entomology and continued the studies of the generation of insects begun by Redi.He also studied mammalian reproduction and correctly concluded that de Graaf's follicles were not true mammalian eggs, as [de] Graaf and others believed."; DSB XIII, 562/5: "His research on the reproductive systems of man and animals led Vallisnieri to observe tubal motility and the movement of the ends of the fallopilian tubes to the ovaries. But his general conclusions were mostly mistaken…".<BR>